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The Impostress

Author : R.J. Clarke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991771
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Impostress written by R.J. Clarke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her story is adapted to move the compassion of those she visits. She has bad nerves, and seems in great disorder of mind, which she pretends to be owing to the ill usage of her father [...] She attempts to borrow money of [sic] waiters, servants, and chaise boys, and offers to leave something in pawn with them to the value. Her name is supposed to be Sarah Wilson." - London Evening-Post, 30 October 1766 Beginning in her late teens, Sarah Wilson travelled alone all over England, living on her wits, inventing new identities, and embroidering stories to fool her victims into providing money and fine clothes. When her crimes eventually caught up with her, she was transported to America – where she reinvented herself in the guise of the Queen's sister and began a new set of adventures at the onset of the American War of Independence. Using original research, newspaper reports and court records, this is the story of 'the greatest Impostress of the present Age': a real-life Moll Flanders who created a remarkable series of lives for herself on both sides of the Atlantic.

Impostress

Author : Lisa Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673284
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Impostress written by Lisa Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a powerful medieval romance in which a secret betrayal ignites unbridled passion between a lord and his lady... Kiera of Lawenydd couldn’t believe what she’d done. Owing her sister a favor, Kiera promised to pose as Elyn on her wedding day. The ruse was to last just one night, but the following morning Elyn was nowhere to be found! Surely Kiera wouldn’t have to spend the rest of her wedded life to the baron picked out for her sister, a man to whom she could never admit the depths of her deception—even as her desire for him grew impossible to resist. It was obvious to Lord Kelan of Penbrooke that something was amiss with his new bride. But despite his misgivings, he couldn’t deny that he was falling in love with the dark-haired beauty. Until he uncovered exactly what she was up to, Kelan would keep the mysterious woman by his side—all the while keeping the fierce stirrings of his heart a well-guarded secret...

The Imposteress Rabbit-Breeder

Author : Karen Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198734883
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Imposteress Rabbit-Breeder written by Karen Harvey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the woman and she was moved to London to be closer to them. By December, she had been accused of fraud and taken into custody. Mary Toft's unusual deliveries caused a media sensation. Her rabbit births were a test case for doctors trying to further their knowledge about the processes of reproduction and pregnancy. The rabbit births prompted not just public curiosity and scientific investigation, but also a vicious backlash. Based on extensive new archival research, this book is the first in-depth re-telling of this extraordinary story. Karen Harvey situates the rabbit-births within the troubled community of Godalming and the women who remained close to Mary Toft as the case unfolded, exploring the motivations of the medics who examined her, considering why the case attracted the attention of the King and powerful men in government, and following the case through the criminal justice system. The case of Mary Toft exposes huge social and cultural changes in English history. Against the backdrop of an incendiary political culture, it was a time when traditional social hierarchies were shaken, relationships between men and women were redrawn, print culture acquired a new vibrancy and irreverence, and knowledge of the body was remade. But Mary Toft's story is not just a story about the past. In reconstructing Mary's physical, social and mental world, The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder allows us to reflect critically on our own ideas about pregnancy, reproduction, and the body through the lens of the past.

The Novel Cure

Author : Ella Berthoud
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125931
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Novel Cure written by Ella Berthoud and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature."—Publisher's Weekly A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful—a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can—quite literally—change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled two thousand years of literature for novels that effectively promote happiness, health, and sanity, written by brilliant minds who knew what it meant to be human and wrote their life lessons into their fiction. Structured like a reference book, readers simply look up their ailment, be it agoraphobia, boredom, or a midlife crisis, and are given a novel to read as the antidote. Bibliotherapy does not discriminate between pains of the body and pains of the head (or heart). Aware that you’ve been cowardly? Pick up To Kill a Mockingbird for an injection of courage. Experiencing a sudden, acute fear of death? Read One Hundred Years of Solitude for some perspective on the larger cycle of life. Nervous about throwing a dinner party? Ali Smith’s There but for The will convince you that yours could never go that wrong. Whatever your condition, the prescription is simple: a novel (or two), to be read at regular intervals and in nice long chunks until you finish. Some treatments will lead to a complete cure. Others will offer solace, showing that you’re not the first to experience these emotions. The Novel Cure is also peppered with useful lists and sidebars recommending the best novels to read when you’re stuck in traffic or can’t fall asleep, the most important novels to read during every decade of life, and many more. Brilliant in concept and deeply satisfying in execution, The Novel Cure belongs on everyone’s bookshelf and in every medicine cabinet. It will make even the most well-read fiction aficionado pick up a novel he’s never heard of, and see familiar ones with new eyes. Mostly, it will reaffirm literature’s ability to distract and transport, to resonate and reassure, to change the way we see the world and our place in it. "This appealing and helpful read is guaranteed to double the length of a to-read list and become a go-to reference for those unsure of their reading identities or who are overwhelmed by the sheer number of books in the world."—Library Journal

The St. James's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St. James's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New God

Author : Richard Voss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New God written by Richard Voss and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla

Author : Nick Fowler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424537
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla written by Nick Fowler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment her daschund humped his leg on a Soho street, aspiring rock star/subway performer Curtis Birnbaum knew he was a goner. He sensed Camilla was a woman who would equally inspire and terrify him. And, miraculously, his ploys for her affection work. With the addition of Camilla to his life, the only thing he lacks for complete happiness is that elusive record deal (and some health insurance). But then, ominously, Camilla begins to slip away. In this daring East Village love story, Nick Fowler gives us a hero who is completely honest about his heartbreak. We root for Curtis as he bottoms out and blunders his way through a series of hilarious misadventures--from a nude modeling stint, to a regretable steam room incident at Crunch gym, to a destination he has only dreamed of: the top floor of Worldwide Plaza where the record moguls preside. Through it all, Curtis remains determined to win back Camilla. Delightfully quirky and unexpectedly poignant, A Thing (or Two) about Curtis and Camilla conjures a tale about the price of love that is as true as it is hysterical.

Atmospheric Disturbances

Author : Rivka Galchen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429929138
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Atmospheric Disturbances written by Rivka Galchen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Salon.com Top Ten Book of the Year A Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Best Book of the Year A Slate Best Book of the Year Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances is a "witty, tender, and conceptually dazzling" (Booklist) novel about the mysterious nature of human relationships. When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the real Rema is alive and in hiding, he embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim her. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey--who believes himself to be a secret agent able to control the weather--his investigation leads him from the streets of New York City to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, in search of the woman he loves.

Folklore

Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.

Madeleine Graham. By the Author of “Whitefriars” I.e. E. Robinson

Author : Emma Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Madeleine Graham. By the Author of “Whitefriars” I.e. E. Robinson written by Emma Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Franz Von Sickingen

Author : Ferdinand Lassalle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Franz Von Sickingen written by Ferdinand Lassalle and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The history of France, from the accession of Henry the third, to the death of Louis the fourteenth. Preceded by A view of the civil, military, and political state of Europe, between the middle and the close of the sixteenth century. From the accession of Henry the third ... to the death of Henry the fourth

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Author : sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Rituals of Spontaneity

Author : Lori Branch
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932792112
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Spontaneity written by Lori Branch and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Book of the Year Award for the Conference on Christianity and Literature.--Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College "CHOICE"

Calcutta Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Calcutta Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of France, from the Accession of Henry the Third, to the Death of Louis the Fourteenth

Author : Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The History of France, from the Accession of Henry the Third, to the Death of Louis the Fourteenth written by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Madeleine Graham

Author : Madeleine Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madeleine Graham written by Madeleine Graham and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Azarian

Author : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Azarian written by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: